Should More Species Be Extinct?

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[@1.4142]

Together, we can make it happen!

[@greenyleen7974]

I vote for mosquitoes!

[@Crausy]

​@@greenyleen7974let's start petition for that!

[@cody5535]

I'm doing my part, are you?

[@Crausy]

@@cody5535 Yes

[@slipperynickels]

i’m strangling as many squirrels as i can

[@PhilTruthborne]

Personally i think we should just make the MIA category more widely known. Extinct is a strong and effective word but if it can't reasonably be used we kinda do need a good alternative for these cases.

[@bosstowndynamics5488]

I think this is a better approach, because the true extinction category loses its impact a bit if species get unextincted, which does happen rarely to MIA critters

[@colonelcorn9500]

The IUCN lists them as “Critically Endangered; Possibly Extinct”. The first one of these I learned about was the Baiji river dolphin.

[@harubynspades]

@@bosstowndynamics5488 it doesn't happen as rarely as you think, it is very very highly common for a species to go missing and then reappear in a few years or months again. A huge number of them do get rediscovered sooner or later.

[@thetachyon456]

We do have data deficient

[@harubynspades]

@@thetachyon456 Data deficient is more for species of dubious taxonomic status or when we don't have enough information about their population status. It doesn't mean they are extinct.

[@TerenceClark]

The coelacanth species in the fossil record are absolutely extinct. What we found is another species in that order, the coelacanthiformes. The living species are pretty distantly related to the fossil coelacanths. They're just a lot more closely related to them than to anything else. I'm not trying to be annoyingly pedantic, but since we're talking about the species level it's good to be precise about what we found with the coelacanth.

[@firytwig]

Absolutely agree, there’s a lot of people who have the wrong takeaway from this whole coelocanth thing. Also the modern species has some notable, albiet minor differences in anatomy as well

[@battlesheep2552]

I also wonder about that whole statement about alligators being unchanged for millions of years when all we have access to are fossils. How do we know the soft tissue didn't change?

[@fenhen]

When talking about fossils you are almost never talking about species anyway. Almost every “species” of dinosaur you can think of is actually a genus.

[@prometheus7387]

I mean, if we go by that, humans also acquired lots of mutations over the past 100000 years, so at what point are we considered a different species from the original human?

[@Tinil0]

@@battlesheep2552 I think it's best to just interpret statements like that as being lay-person speak, not scientific speak. The same species of crocodilians has absolutely not been alive and unchanged for millions of years. The fossils we have are just very closely related species that haven't had any super dramatic skeletal changes. "Unchanged" here is relatively speaking, not absolutely unchanged. Sadly science communication is always a compromise between precision and getting random people to actually understand what is being said. There is a reason that science talk can feel like a foreign language to Joe Schmoe, average non scientifically literate person. Well, ok, there is a lot of latin but I am not talking about that, I am talking about how it needs to be precise for scientific reasons and that precision requires some amount of education or familiarity to interpret.

[@sakurakitsunestar]

Maybe we need a in-between stage for those missing creatures like we have endlings for species with too low a population count to not become eventually extinct

[@davesdatasystems]

I completely agree with you, if you was to come up with a index for that, you might make millions. I would call it the IUCN Red index.

[@deinsilverdrac8695]

That's called functionnaly extinct or missing species.

[@lonestarr1490]

@@davesdatasystems Why would they make millions off of it, lol?

[@jeromeorji1057]

"The list of extinct species is incomplete. You can help by expanding it"

[@lasercraft32]

"The Forbidden Pokedex" XD

[@Toadey2012]

​@@lasercraft32 LOL

[@BennoWitter]

Wollemia nobilis have been thought to be extinct for 65 million years and in 1994, they found this plant hidden in Australia. There are only 100 plants left on earth, one being in a small park in Germany, so they might become extinct again.

[@ShirinRose]

There are only 100 adult Wollemi pines in the wild, but there are surely plenty more being grown elsewhere. I happened to come across one at the Babbacombe Model Village in Torquay, England, just a couple of months ago, and I've seen others at various Botanic Gardens (mostly in Australia, but still)

[@Usulcardo]

Wrong. Just like the coelacanth situation, Wollemia nobilis is a modern species of Araucariaceae which is not known from any fossil material. It's a rare member of a very ancient lineage but it was never thought to be extinct because it simply wasn't known to science prior to the discovery of living specimens. So it's absolutely not thought to be extinct for 65 millions years lmao

[@fbwsrd9910]

@@ShirinRose We have a wollemi pine in our backyard. They are very slow growers, which would explain the lack of adult trees, but you can buy young trees and it's not crazy expensive.

[@Seth-Halo]

​@@Usulcardotbf, the first fossils were discovered in the 19th century and their lineage was thought to have gone extinct. While it may be accurate to say "science didn't know about this specific type of coelacanth it so it was never considered extinct" that is not entirely true. Sure they might not have considered that exact kind extinct. But it shares many similarities with ones they did consider extinct and they thought the entire line had gone extinct millions of years ago so considered every member of the species within the line extinct until the discovery in 1938.

[@Ozraptor4]

Wollemia type fossils vanish from the fossil record 2 million years ago, not 65 (given Australia doesn't even have a latest Cretaceous terrestrial fossil record to begin with)

[@boy638]

My biggest takeaway from the video is knowing there's a catfish simply called the fat catfish. Anyone knows its scientific name?

[@AndyGneiss]

Maybe Rhizosomichthys totae, if I found the correct Wikipedia page.

[@SioxerNikita]

Garfieldus Aqua Catus

[@davidgustavsson4000]

If we knew her name she wouldn't be a catfish.

[@Swordfish42]

This totally made my day

[@Eric-vs2he]

Obesitus Aqua Catus

[@davidg5898]

Ivory-billed woodpecker sightings haven't been confirmed, but there is growing evidence they are critically endangered, but not extinct. Mark Michaels, of Project Principalis, and his team just recently published in the scientific journal _Ecology and Evolution_ about their decade-long survey in Louisana where they collected strong evidence for the ivory-billed still be with us. Some of his work can be found here on YT, also. It's not definitive, but the evidence is mounting.

[@dominikzelenak7423]

Can you send me link to his channel?

[@davidg5898]

@@dominikzelenak7423 YT doesn't allow links in comments. I don't think he has his own channel, but others have featured him and his work. Just search for it.

[@MrARock001]

There's also "functionally extinct" where there are known individuals still alive, but so few that the species will never recover and the individuals no longer provide a meaningful ecosystem function, like the northern white rhino. Given the broad definition that "there is not enough genetic diversity in the population left for it to recover" this could actually expand the number of species to ones with quite high overall populations, but whose genetic capacity to repopulate, due to habitat destruction / isolation of breeding populations, means that without drastic human intervention, species like the koala could be considered functionally extinct.

[@alex_zetsu]

Cheetahs have actually undergone a serve population bottleneck. The current population comes from very narrow bottleneck. One study looking at DNA analysis suggested this bottleneck was at one point 2 individuals... for 3 generations. Getting down to a single mating pair and recovering is just about as little genetic diversity as you can get and doing it for multiple generations in a row is even harder. So I'm not willing to accept the concept of "there is not enough genetic diversity in the population left for it to recover." If you have a single mating pair and both parents are viable, sure incest among the next generation might make a lot of 2nd generation have all sorts of defects. But the possibly of further descendants who are not defective is not zero.

[@MrARock001]

@@alex_zetsu that's true, and I was considering mentioning it as a counter-example, but didn't know enough about the details to comment. I didn't know they had gotten down to only 2 individuals! I do know that the genetic bottleneck has significantly impaired the cheetah's gene pool though, and has left them susceptible to immune deficiencies. But you're absolutely right that so long as there are two viable mating individuals, it's not impossible for a species to recover.

[@alex_zetsu]

@@MrARock001 The most conservative estimate used on the DNA studies show there was a population bottleneck. Further assuming random mating and negligible selection of the studied markers during that time would give a high certainty the modern population came from a mating pair. Worse, rather than being a mating pair for one generation, the next two generations were also reduced to a mating pair and that compounds the problem if you know how inbreeding works. I think we should relax those assumptions since no one mates randomly and whatever caused the bottleneck was likely excreting a selection pressure and it could have affected one of those markers. With more relaxed assumptions, we can conclude there was a bottleneck and it could have been as low as one mating pair, but it might not have been that bad. If we relax the criteria from "reduced to one mating pair" to "severe bottleneck" then it's not just cheetahs but many others which had recovered from such a state. As such, I don't really take the concept of a minimal level of genetic diversity to be viable all that much. Inbreeding is basically just playing lottery with genetics with worse odds than normal, but it doesn't eliminate all good outcomes.

[@smalltime0]

@@alex_zetsu Bottle necking also occurred with the Tasmanian Devil, and now they have contagious cancer. They bite each other playfully and those bites can pass on cancer.

[@smalltime0]

Northern White Rhinos might make a comeback if scientists can figure out how to use the embryos, eggs and sperm that were collected to get them to gestate in a southern white rhino. But very few seem like they're viable, so... not a lot of room to fuck up

[@Joe-3.]

"This list of extinct species is incomplete, you can help by expanding it!"

[@CraftyF0X]

Boy that fish blew my mind, it's like finding a dinosaur alive.

[@billcipher4368]

But now relegion use it as "proof" for god existing

[@CraftyF0X]

@@billcipher4368 yea, like "god did it " ever explained anything -.-

[@billcipher4368]

@@CraftyF0X also it somehow gives proof that evolution doesn't exists? I just hate relegion for being so aggrasive of spreading it's belief

[@G.A.C_Preserve]

@@billcipher4368 it's just their nonsense

[@laurentrobitaille2204]

You mean aves, a clade within dinosauria?

[@cebo494]

Seems like some sort of additional "Likely Extinct" category would make sense

[@ghislainbugnicourt3709]

What about accepting that "extinct" always means "extinct unless we find one" ?

[@Tata-ps4gy]

​@@ghislainbugnicourt3709yes lol, we should protect extinct species just in case they aren't actually extinct

[@laurentrobitaille2204]

@@ghislainbugnicourt3709 What about species like Tyrannosaurus rex, the dodo, Stellar sea cow, etc. These are 100% gone, so we shouldn’t waste our efforts on these animals when they could be put on actually endangered species.

[@ghislainbugnicourt3709]

@@laurentrobitaille2204 We're never 100% sure and it's fine, I'm not saying we should act differently because of this. It's just about fighting our urge to have definitive boxes to put stuff into.

[@smalltime0]

@@laurentrobitaille2204 I forget the species, but in Australia there was this tiny mouse-like thing that had been declared extinct and some kid found it after like 80 years of "extinction". He recognised it because he happened to have read about it (in a book of extinct species, weirdo) and realised that it wasn't a common mouse or a small bandicoot.

[@ebonyblack4563]

It's a shame that we can't have more accuracy due to the predation of companies that'd happily swoop in if more species were classified in the way that's believed.

[@Mario-ww4eu]

I love how so much of whether we declare a species extinct depends on how much hope we have in it still being alive 😂

[@NickWrightDataYT]

1:04 "There are almost certainly species that we know of, that have gone extinct, and we haven't noticed" The idea that this could be true is shocking and depressing. Wow.

[@thelakeman2538]

There very well could be many plants or insects like that. Not like many people are looking for them so easy to slip through the cracks I suppose.

[@daforkgaming3320]

Now we’ll never know unless we have miraculous evolution luck. I’m not even sure if that’s possible. Can a non-extinct animal evolve into an animal that used to be extinct or at least have an incredibly high amount of similarities?

[@harubynspades]

That is not entirely true, we would have noticed them, certainly. Especially in continents like north America, Asia, Europe or Australia, there are a lot of scientists looking for them, most of the uncertainties are about undescribed species not described ones.

[@daforkgaming3320]

@@harubynspades if the IUCN can’t make a flawless track of extinction, then of course there will be species we know that have gone extinct and we haven’t noticed. Scientists don’t monitor species 24/7. Of course, we’ll eventually notice, if not then humanity has effectively forgotten the existence of an animal

[@laurentrobitaille2204]

@@daforkgaming3320 Not the same animal, but an animal with the same ecological niche, which may result in convergent evolution, as seen with ichthyosaurs, dolphins and sharks.

[@slametdinatadinata645]

A commenter said that they have seen an ivory-billed woodpecker 1 minute ago, from what i can remember.

[@Memezndreamz]

I think a good idea is to make a category named presumably extinct. This will allow for animals that are possibly not extinct to be labeled based on their length of MIA, but the title will make people presume that they may still be alive to make sure protection acts aren’t disabled.

[@ellotheearthling]

The Blanco Blind Salamander hasn’t been seen for so long likely because it lives in a place that’s extremely hard to reach, in fact, there’s only a single confirmed sighting of them in their natural habitat

[@babilon6097]

People tend to do the same with their hair. They refuse to admit that their gone. The fact of admitting alone has some kind of finality to it. And it can end all efforts to save them. So even when someone hasn't seen their hair for years, they don't like it being pointed out.

[@EEE-1409]

lol what

[@Amonimus]

"More Spieces Should Be Labeled As Exctinct" If there's always a chance a member of an exctinct spieces is discovered, maybe we shouldn't mark any as definitely exctinct.

[@Kurominos1]

i meran then you can label them as not extinct again the thing is jsut lets say thers really just 100 induviduals of an extinct spec left but we say its extinct then this spec can mostly live there in peace if we label it as missing ppl wil lgo out and look for it searchign for it disturbing it and in worse cases ruin its habitat with it like humans can be super destructiv ,,,,even if they dont want to or have actually just good things in mind in my area once an albatross showed up (im from central europe) so an albatross is a really rare sight it stayed on a lake where a lot of other birds nest and rest so many ppl rushed there to see this albatross that some birds there lost over 50 % of theyr nesting ground cause ppl would run around trampling eggs and chicks /nests into the ground without a care cause all they wantet is this "special" photo of this albatross but all these ppl where "Naturelovers and Birdlovers"

[@yashwardhansingh4787]

Yeah, what if a T-rex is still out there somewhere on some undiscovered island.

[@Xeverous]

If there are 3M-100M undiscovered species, how many new species are appearing? This is also extremely hard to estimate because we would have to be somehow sure that a given specie wasn't present in the past.

[@CAMSLAYER13]

Evolution doesn't happen fast enough, generally, for us to observe a new species forming in the time we've looked.

[@bladdnun3016]

@@CAMSLAYER13 It's also quite a gradual process.

[@lovelasnow]

Speaking of poor monitoring of species, I once looked up something I can across and it showed as being extinct, the Wikipedia listing has since updated but it still shows as possibly extinct, granted it is native to Jamaica and I’ve only seen it in mountainous areas

[@pierreabbat6157]

There are species, such as the Lilliputian violet, which have been found only once, despite repeated search. Close behind is the Niumbaha bat (the name means "rare"), which has been found only five times, in places widely spread across Africa. How can we tell if these are extinct?

[@Snagabott]

If it has been found only once, how do we know that it's not just a one-off mutation of something more common?

[@harubynspades]

The Niumbaha bat is listed as least concern because it was sighted quite recently, it is just rare by nature.

[@gnanay8555]

Is it not possible to determine probabilites for missing species to be extinct ? In this case, we can estimate the real number of extinct species, even if we don't know exactly which one is extinct or missing.

[@KnightSlasher]

When there is a will there is a way and these species are fighting hard enough to stay hidden from us which is a good thing sadly

[@Peusterokos1]

Just as you've said: if there's a will there's a way; We have to work harder to make them extinct then!

[@WanderTheNomad]

I don't think they're that much safer when we can't see them. For better or for worse, humans are a powerful species that can make huge impacts that we might not be able to see immediately.

[@RobertMilesAI]

Probably they should have an extra category, like "presumed extinct", for such species

[@lion_brine_ninja6407]

NatureServe's ranks of species endangerment has a "Persumed Extinct" rank rather than Red List's "Extinct" rank

[@diracio]

Entertaining and informative as ever, thank you!

[@manchest_hair_united1161]

__this list is incomplete, help Wikipedia expand this list__

[@LegoCookieDoggie]

And then there's the fun concept of species re-evolving themselves to existence

[@ethribin4188]

On the other hand, we don't need to kedp track of all extinct species. Nor should we prevent all extinctions. We just have to keep our impact, that causes extinctions, to a minimum.

[@Welverin]

We have top men working on it right now.

[@EvilPaladin11]

This video was a roller coaster of emotion.

[@PIXELPLEXYT246]

There is only one animal species I want to go extinct. It's the mosquitoes.

[@irrelevant2235]

I second that! Mosquitoes are the most deadliest animal in the world! Personally for me, if there were no mosquitoes, my life would be so much better.

[@PIXELPLEXYT246]

@@irrelevant2235 Agree :)

[@JohannesLothberg]

I feel like these arguments only really allow for two rational outcomes. If we're worried about not being able to argue for continued protection of species we should just stop declaring _anything_ ever extinct, or we actually start declaring things we think are extinct as such until they aren't. The current system seems entirely unuseful.

[@somebodyelse9130]

I don't understand your reasoning. You say that if we care most about preservation of potentially non-extinct yet missing species, then we should stop declaring any species extinct, not just MIA ones. How does that follow? What good would it do to not declare extinct a species where there's "no reasonable doubt that the last individual of a species has died"?

[@JohannesLothberg]

@@somebodyelse9130 "No reasonable doubt" is completely arbitrary though. If we've ended up finding species actually alive after 100 years of not finding any of them, when are there actually no reasonable doubts? My argument is that these restrictions mean that the labeling seems entirely arbitrary and that if it's entirely arbitrary then the labeling is actively unhelpful.

[@packx3]

I feel clickbaited by this title

[@JamesSmith-rb5lv]

Great video but I'm confused. You make a point that there are so many species we have never even discovered yet so maybe the ones we haven't seen in years just need to be rediscovered.

[@Wonderhoy-er]

I was expecting pun at the end, was highly disappointed… but I love the video regardless ❤😊

[@VeryNormiee]

How do we know there are millions of possibly undiscovered species out there?

[@PhilipEnders]

How has this not already had more views?

[@WelcomeToDERPLAND]

I mean, thats what happens when people who haven't scoured every single square inch of every part of the world to confirm such things are extinct so we just use hypothetical math to decide how many are going extinct every year.

[@this_name_is_taken]

Love how the unknown species silhouettes have multiple pokemons in it.

[@tjtheknowledgeseeker7878]

Dont think you can hide a Vulpix, Ekans, and Paras in the mystery species!

[@pokemonbrickbronze5947]

Wow few seconds ago and alredy reply

[@maximilianosalvador9559]

And Pikachu and Slowpoke

[@mrtrollnator123]

Great video 😊

[@HelenLannister]

You could list them as “Missing in Action”…

[@patrickblanchette4337]

1:23 I remember back in college a professor told us that when aliens ask us how many species that are on Earth our answer will be like, “we don’t know & we will never know because we wiped so many out”.

[@jonahhekmatyar]

We should start with mosquitoes

[@4Nulla]

Nah, ticks. Let's start with ticks.

[@ragnkja]

How about the plasmodium that causes malaria? That’s pretty high on my list of species that could go extinct without being missed.

[@squidwardfromua]

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[@SioxerNikita]

Mosquitos is a keystone species, can't remove 'em without screwing both a ton of plants and animals.

[@jonahhekmatyar]

@@SioxerNikita "mosquitos is a keystone species" 🤓. Yeah, I don't care

[@CaptainvonDore]

My new game while watching Minute Earth, spot as many as Pokémons as possible.

[@NickWrightDataYT]

So what I'm hearing is that there are a lot of animals that should be in another category, *Presumed Extinct...but they might not be!" lol

[@AZ222]

We should know more about the endangered species also. Like give people hope to protect them even if there is a slim chance u know

[@shadowdragon4451]

Imagine their foyer plastered with missing posters saying: please call if you see any of these 210000 species alive

[@ellytrabread]

Oil miners seeing this: Way to go guys, lets shoot for 1000!

[@CyberBeast66]

What about some of those species where, as far as we know, there are only females or only males left? They're essentially 1 step behind extinction, so do researchers still hold back giving them the extinct status?

[@IllidanS4]

Not all species need both, and not all species we thought needed both actually did.

[@thelakeman2538]

They're considered to be functionally extinct.

[@TySmithHerpingVA]

The issue is when actually Extinct organisms pull funds away from Critically Endangered Species, like what we have seen with the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.

[@MozartTheGOAT]

Whole world worrying about losing biodiversity and MinuteEarth is here making the bold claims in their video titles

[@petersmythe6462]

Which of those 902 confirmed recently extinct species would make the best pet?

[@this-guy-sucks]

There’s an ad that’s completely stole your whole video without even editing it

[@spacetoastgaming2006]

Be the change you want to see in this world

[@liangyanzhang7379]

There was a spit-turning dog and it worked in pairs to turn a spit to power something that cooks food. on sunday it gets a break and works as a foot warmer in the church. But eventually the species died out when machines were invented.

[@Mohojo]

I grew up in the green swamp of Florida. I am pretty sure I have seen that woodpecker about decade ago.

[@orangecat504]

Yeah that’s why disagree with Emily’s take here as many extinct creatures still have numerous reported sightings.

[@americanmapper2445]

​@@orangecat504non confirmed tho

[@orangecat504]

@@americanmapper2445 yes I would say thiers a difference between reported and official sightings.

[@ethribin4188]

As the history of life showed, species extinction isnt actually a bad thing. Its the norm. Just like death. The important part is that extinctions dont happen in to rapid a pattern. Otherwise it will drag the entire system, that both nature and we humans rely on, down. And while life will survive, We humans might not. So we have invested interest in keeping nature stable. Not frozen, not regressing or removed. But stable.

[@user-ju5wg8ip6r]

I'm a little late to this, but if a selacamp hasn't been seen for millions of years and it was presumed to be extinct, but was really alive still how does ICUN determine with no shred of a doubt that a species is extinct?

[@abhishekranjan1347]

1:12 they put every single pokemon here

[@robertsteffler5155]

Okay, contents of the video not withstanding, that title is absolutely *metal*.

[@Tata-ps4gy]

Missing for 240 million years and found!?!? Thats wild

[@ImmortalAbsol]

So with the conclusion un mind, how did they reach the conclusion that the ones currently classic extinct should be so?

[@theperfectmix2]

“Listed as Extinct because it has not been recorded since 1996, and extensive searches in the appropriate habitat, during the appropriate season within the known range, have failed to locate this species. Its disappearance has been attributed, at least in part, to chytridiomycosis-related declines.” Justification for the extinction of the Chiriqui Harlequin Frog.

[@milodautkitteh]

So my question is, how did they prove that those 900 and so animals and plants are extinct beyond a reasonable doubt?

[@adityasonawane7514]

Most probably, what matters is which species are extinct by bad human activities. Other than that, it is natural selection.

[@leam89]

I feel like going instinct and nobody noticing would hurt the feels

[@3MB3Rx134]

Fun fact: if mosquitoes went extinct there would be little to no negative effects on the ecosystem

[@guycxz]

00:05 This video has been brought to you by The Black Templars and the Ordo Astartes at large, on behalf of the Imperium of Man.

[@markokostelac7282]

And the precambrian death masks 0:47

[@therongjr]

I wouldn't hate if mosquitoes, human lice, and bedbugs went extinct.

[@LavenderLushLuxury]

Makes me so sad, Honestly.... 💔💔💔

[@0XBlondie96X0]

At first i thought that by "more species should be extinct" you were saying that with all the catastrophic events that occured in Earth's past coupled with all the damage that human intervention has done today, way more species have managed to survive till today than one would think

[@TheLobsterCopter5000]

I mean, the anopheles mosquito should be imo

[@deepashtray5605]

"... when the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again." ~William Beebe

[@Peichen01]

Kate with a flattening pan going after endangered species

[@cy5279]

I wonder how many of these species that haven't been seen in so long, have been seen by ordinary people who had no idea what they were looking at?

[@harubynspades]

that's a very high probability

[@that_one_guy2426]

This is kinda sad 😢

[@wetburntbagel]

We should call most “extinct” animals missing unless it is very old and very dead like synapsids and hadrosaurs

[@DreadEnder]

The number of potential species on earth is a massive overestimate. The largest possible number is likely around 5,000,000

[@YoungGandalf2325]

I will never have the opportunity to bite into a freshly grilled Tasmanian Tiger burger. 😢

[@PurpleShift42]

unless they figure out how to clone one lmao

[@wagglebutt]

Please make the background music quieter.

[@georgecristiancripcia4819]

One interesting fact:protecting the nature and animals it is a recent endevour,like from 1900 onwards with the major impuls after ww2.Until 1900 all the people,from common people to governement did not give a thought about protecting the nature.They killed,destroyed,poluate and consume everthing they could.Think only how the whales became a specie in danger.And this is as old as the human species.From neolithic peope to Rome and Greece,from India and China to South and North America civilizations,from Africa to Australia and Greenland,every civilization destroyed the nature without a care,worse then any modern day capitalist bc,compared to today,there was nobody who cared enough to try to stop them. So yes,we could do better but at least we try to do something compared to our ancestors.Nature park and reservations and protected animals are a modern idea.

[@GeneralCalculus]

MinúteEarth snapped.

[@GODZILLA2915]

For a moment I thought you were going to go George Carlin on this, glad you didn’t.

[@hughobyrne2588]

CORRECTIONS: When looking at the bottom of a stamp, the image you see is a *reflection* of the image that gets stamped. To stamp the word 'EXTINCT", what you'd see on the bottom of the stamp is the word, reversed. Wait, am I in the right place? Is this... where am I?

[@PurpleShift42]

They get this right at 0:26 but not in the thumbnail image lmao

[@jackic23]

No worries, we're actually looking at the reflection of the stamping taken from a mirror

[@hughobyrne2588]

@@jackic23 Masterclass response, there. Bravo.

[@Snagabott]

The number of extinct species seem to be proportional to the deficit in whatever NGO is asking.

[@I_am_him_42069]

my pov has changed now

[@laurentrobitaille2204]

I feel like the coelacanth one is quite misleading. The two current species are not the same as the fossilized ones of the Mesozoic.

[@eljanrimsa5843]

1:42 "The IUCN only declares a species extinct when there's no reasonable doubt that the last individual of the species has died." That's nonsense. That would be a totally impractical standard. There's always the possibility that an individual or population of the species had been overlooked and will be found later. The IUCN is aware of this possibility and uses a different approach when to declare a species extinct. If a species hasn't been sighted in a certain timespan that corresponds with the generation length of the species, and a scientific expedition has been carried out looking for this species in the location where it most likely could have survived, and this expedition finds no evidence, then the species is declared extinct.

[@StellarLimpkin]

Im never giving up hope for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. I think the recent study provides enough evidence.

[@CBWP]

Where is my cup?

[@dariusjacobi4573]

And what is necessary to categorize a species as extinct?

[@Anakinlawrence0]

Maybe that shouldn’t be the only reason we’re keeping the planet somewhat clean it shouldn’t be just because oh this animal might be alive so it’s still the right thing

[@samo8178]

Let's join the war on Extinction, on the side of Extinction

[@jackic23]

And here I was thinking they were trying to explain how evolution works 😆

[@captainguineapig781]

Don't think we didn't see the Pikachu

[@user-go5ri2yg5f]

Nobody has seen a fat catfish in 65 years? Bruh, I see them everyday on Tinder!

[@deinsilverdrac8695]

Well with the noumber of endangered species that probably will change.